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  "Are you on birth control," he asks, pulling out of me.

  "No. Why?" I ask, though; that’s probably a stupid question too.

  "Just wondering how long it’s gonna take for my baby to grow in your belly. I like knowing that it can happen at any time," he says before kissing me again.

  "Oh, God," I whisper, really, really loving the idea of that.

  "Let’s get some rest," he says, moving to my right side and pulling me closer to him. "I am not ever going to be done with you, Marla. Better get used to that." He pulls the covers over us, and his rhythmic breathing soon tells me he’s sleeping.

  I am exhausted, but I really feel like my whole world has just changed. I’ve never spent the night away from home before. My family is my entire world. I slide out of bed and pull on his white button shirt from the floor by the front door. I pull my boots on and run out to his truck. It’s still raining, but not as bad as it was before. I grab my purse from the passenger seat and dash back into his house. I turn the lamp on that is sitting on a table by the door. Looking around the room, I notice that there are boxes in the living room instead of furniture. I call Mrs. Tincheley and let her know that I won’t be coming home tonight. I know she is brimming with questions, but I end the call letting her know that I’ll talk to her tomorrow. I climb back in bed with Buck, and he pulls me closer to him, wrapping an arm around me.

  Is it possible to fall in love when you barely know the other person?

  This is more than love at first sight; it feels right. So right, like every bad thing that ever happened in my life brought me to this place, to this bed, with this man.

  Chapter Four

  Buck

  The next morning, I wake up feeling better than I ever have. She is wearing my shirt; her damp hair spread out on my pillows. The blanket has slid down her hips. Her pussy is showing, and I can’t help thanking God that she’s all mine. She is I am still having trouble believing that someone as unique as her was pure for me. In the light of day, I know that I don’t want her to leave my side. I have fallen in love for the first time in the span of one night, and I am not willing to give that up. More to the point, I’m not willing to give her up.

  "Marla, I need you to marry me," I blurt out over coffee at the diner in town. I hate that I had nothing to offer her this morning, but since I had to drive her back to her car, the diner was on the way.

  "Wwwhat?" she asks, sputtering.

  "I need you to be my wife," I reiterate. I have never wanted anything more in my life.

  "Need or want?"

  "Both. I want all of you forever."

  "I don’t even know you, Buck. Oh, shit, but I want to. What do you do for a living? I feel like I should know that," she says, taking another sip of her coffee.

  "I am a large animal vet. I start working at the Circle T ranch on Monday," I say.

  "Oh my God. That’s my ranch. Well, it’s my dad’s ranch. I am the business manager. He told me he hired a vet but didn’t give me any details."

  "That’s me," I say, laughing.

  "What a small world," she says.

  "So about marrying me?" I ask, standing and holding my hand out to her. She takes it, and we walk out to the sidewalk in front of the diner.

  "Judge Hollins does marriage ceremonies," she says when I pull her into my arms.

  "I need to make a stop; then we can be on our way," I say. I spotted a jewelry store near the courthouse.

  "Sounds good. I’ll call Clare and Bobby Ray. They can be our witnesses. Are we crazy? Is this crazy?" she rambles.

  "It might be crazy, but it feels right, doesn’t it?"

  "It really does," she says, agreeing with me.

  "What are we waiting for then?" I ask, lifting her into the truck.

  On the way to the store, we discuss everything. I learn about her brothers and her mom. I tell her that I am an only child, and my adoptive parents live in Texas. That I’ve never met my birth parents, and I have no desire to. My mom and dad are all I need.

  Before I know it, we are parked in front of the courthouse, and her friends are standing on the steps waiting for us.

  "Well, well, well. If this isn't just the best walk of shame ever," Clare says, and the girls laugh before hugging.

  "I know. It’s crazy, but I really want it," Marla says in response.

  "Girl, I am so happy for you. Let’s get this show on the road."

  Ten minutes later, we are married. A couple of signatures later, we are on the road to her house. We pull up, and her brothers rush over to the truck.

  "Marla, you didn’t tuck us in last night," one of them says sadly.

  "I’m sorry, Jim. I have some news. I got married this morning. This is my husband, Buck. He’s gonna work here."

  "Wow, cool. He looks like a real cowboy," Tim says, and Marla chuckles.

  "Hey, dudes. It’s nice to meet you."

  "You too," they say.

  "What’s this about you getting married, Marla? This doesn’t look like Lester McHale," an older man says, coming out of the house.

  "How’d you know, Dad?"

  "Judge Hollins called me."

  "Of course, he did. Well, it’s true. This is my husband, Buck Buckley."

  "Buckley. The vet?"

  "Yes, sir. It’s a pleasure to meet you," I say, stepping forward to shake his hand. My only question right now is: Who the hell is Lester McHale?

  "How’d you two meet?" he asks, ignoring my outstretched hand.

  "We met at Roscoe’s last night, dad. Stop being a dick." He chuckles.

  "Girl, watch your mouth. What the hell am I supposed to tell McHale?"

  "Tell him what he’s actually looking for is a nanny," she says, walking past him into the house, leaving her father and I standing on the porch.

  "She reminds me of her mother. Fiery as all get out. Good luck with that," he says, finally shaking my hand.

  "Thanks. I think I’ve got it. Who’s Lester McHale?" I finally ask.

  "A buddy of mine. He’s got a boatload of kids. His wife just passed away. I told Marla that she was going to marry him. Of course, that wasn’t really gonna happen. You see, Marla put her life on hold for these boys and me. I just lit a fire under her ass."

  "Well, thank you for that, sir," I say, chuckling.

  "James, please. You’re my new son in law after all," he says.

  I follow him into the house and meet the boy’s nanny. We sit down to a big lunch then I help her pack her clothes. We had already decided to live at my house.

  "Ready to go?" I ask. She looks at me with unshed tears in her eyes.

  "Yes. It’s just hard, knowing I won’t be here for the boys anymore." At that moment, I make the split decision to stay here until I can build us a place on the property. I stop packing. "What are you doing?" she asks.

  "Let’s stay here," I say.

  "What about your place?"

  "We’ll figure something out," I say.

  "I love you, Buck," she says, throwing her arms around my neck.

  "I love you too, babe," I say, kissing her. "We are going to have to get you a bigger bed, though." Eyeing her twin bed, there’s no damn way I will fit on that tiny ass thing. She laughs.

  "I agree, husband," she says, kissing me. "But we should at least try it out first."

  "I like where your head's at," I say, sitting on the bed. She jumps into my lap, and damn if the frame doesn’t crash to the floor. She laughs hysterically until she can't catch her breath. Her skin is glowing, and her freckles stick out more when she is blissfully happy.

  Right here and right now, I vow to count every single freckle on her body before I die.

  I'll remember this moment, the way she's looking at me, right down to the way she's laughing for the rest of my life.

  Epilogue

  Marla

  One Year Later

  A few months after we were married, I found out that I was pregnant. Now I have given birth to our first child, a girl named Mika. I loved him
that first day, and I always will. Not a day goes by when I don’t love him a little bit more than the day before. He had a house built for us on my dad’s ranch so that I could be near the boys. He was prepared to sell the Dresden Mansion, but I convinced him to start a bed and breakfast there. With just over twenty bedrooms, it’s perfect. We fixed it up, and the grand opening is this weekend. We are booked solid for the next six months. I knew my dreams always leaned toward starting a family but being the proprietor of a bed and breakfast wasn’t even on the radar, but it’s so fulfilling.

  "Babe, where are you," Buck calls from the hallway.

  "In the bathroom," I call out. "I’m fixing my hair. I’m almost ready to go. Mrs. Tincheley has Mika."

  "Aww, I missed her. I am going to take a quick shower. Daisy had some trouble bringing her calf into the world." He comes into the bathroom, covered in God knows what.

  "Is she okay?" I ask.

  "She is now. It took damn near all day."

  "Good." I watch as he strips down and climbs into the shower.

  "What time are our reservations?"

  "Eight. Why?"

  "Why don’t we just skip it."

  "Oh?"

  "We can stay in, have some leftovers."

  "You’d rather have leftovers, or is that some kind of code?"

  "Code," he answers, winking at me.

  "Oh!" I exclaim. "We can stay in."

  "Good. We can work on baby number two," he says, going back to his shower.

  I set my hair straightener down and bounce out of the room. He comes out of the bathroom with a towel slung low over his hips. He stalks toward me, grinning. I am lying on our bed, naked, waiting for him. "You are so fucking beautiful."

  "Thank you," I breathe. Every single time he takes me feels better than the last.

  We make love all night. I will always love this man more than I can ever say.

  Staying in is so much better than going out.

  Epilogue

  Buck

  Fifteen Years Later

  "Fuck, Marla. Just like that," I groan as she takes as much of my dick into her mouth as she can.

  "Mmm-hmmm," she moans, looking up at me. Her green eyes are so expressive; I think that I could come just looking at her. She is ungodly good at this, and I don’t think I can take much more. I pull her to her feet. "I wasn’t done," she pouts, making me chuckle.

  "I need you, babe."

  "I need you too," she says as I lift her into my arms and carry her the few feet to the bed. On her back, she spreads her legs wide for me. She screams the second I slide into her.

  "Be quiet; you'll wake the kids. You don’t want me to stop, do you?" She shakes her head like a good girl. I thrust in and out of her, over and over, until she can't keep quiet anymore. I feel her pussy tighten around my dick. Reaching between us, I rub her clit to prolong her orgasm as I pound into her. Her legs tighten around my waist, and her pale fingers dig into my much darker shoulders, spurring me to fuck into her harder and harder until I can't hold back anymore. I growl her name and fill her with my seed. Fuck, how'd I get so lucky? I think as I pull out of her and lay down beside her.

  I watch as she sits up and pulls the covers over us. We've led an extraordinary life. Once we got the hang of married life and her brothers were used to the idea of Marla not living there anymore, we moved over to a house I had built on the ranch. The mansion, now the Dresden House B & B, is still thriving after all these years.

  Six months in her cramped little bedroom at her dad's house-made this place seem like the moon. She could be as loud as she wanted then, but with six kids, the oldest fourteen and the youngest just two, that is a thing of the past.

  "I'm sleepy," she says, yawning.

  "You sleep. I'll go check on the kids," I tell her getting out of bed.

  "Hurry back, I could do that again," she says, snuggling into the blankets.

  "Alright, babe. I'll be right back." If I know my wife, and I think that I do, she'll be sound asleep, snoring before I get back.

  We may have been quick to fall in love, but it's a love that will never fail. I will always love, protect, and cherish her until the day I die.

  Acknowledgments

  I want to thank my husband, Daryl. You are so supportive of my dreams and I love you so fucking much for like ever.

  Thank you, Mama, for all of your support! I love you.

  Karlee, thank you for being a friend. #GoldenGirls reference. But seriously, thank you!!!! Love you .6 times!!!

  Elisa, thank you for all of your support! I am so glad to have met you!!

  ChaShiree, thank you for being my friend and supporting me, no matter what I write.

  JENNY!!! You are the best damn alpha reader a girl could have!

  To all of my readers, you guys are the ones that make this possible! Thank you for reading me and taking the time to review. You don’t know how much seeing your words of encouragement help me when I am struggling!

  Love Always,

  MK

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